Monday, December 21, 2015

This weekend I saw the JJ Abrahams tory line of the new Star
Wars reboot.

I have to say, it was better than the silly storyline Lucas
took it. As someone who saw the original
1977 move named “Star Wars” in theaters, opening weekend, I call that movie “Star
Wars”, not “a new hope”, just Star Wars.

But my disappointment in the new film as that it is exact
same movie I saw when I was 14.
Really. Same plot with the
characters shuffled a bit. Even the new Death
World – the rebooted version of the Death Star – has X-Wing fighters going
through all sorts of maneuvers to shot a vulnerable spot on a planet sized
weapon. I literally found myself looking
around at the audience saying to myself – “I’ve seen this”…

I guess if you’ve never seen the original movie, it’s
good. If you have seen the original and
want to avoid a haggard Princess Leia, catch it in a few years on Netflix. Carrie Fisher is 59, Harrison is 73 – He looks
younger than her…All those years of drug use and semi-sanity have taken their
toll Carrie. It’s kind of sad.